The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.” — Lon Grover Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,… — Eric Diehl Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
“The class, on the other hand, buzzed and hummed with the anticipated pleasure of writing it up, one day. They were vindicated.… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I just make the best book that I can and try to not worry about audience or if it will sell. The… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
